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Five notable happenings today in the cyber world:
The NCSC-Switzerland said that the Play ransomware attack at Xplain impacted 65,000 important documents of the Federal Administration. The documents were from various administrative units, including the Federal Department of Justice and Police, the Federal Office of Justice, and the Federal Office of Police.
16,000+ Fortinet devices compromised with symlink backdoor, Mostly in Asia
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/ Friday , April 18 2025
According to Shadowserver Foundation around 17,000 Fortinet devices worldwide have been compromised using a new technique called "symlink". This number...
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Patch now! Critical Erlang/OTP SSH Vuln Allows UCE
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/ Friday , April 18 2025
A critical security flaw has been found in the Erlang/Open Telecom Platform (OTP) SSH implementation, allowing an attacker to run...
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CISA warns of increasing risk tied to Oracle legacy Cloud leak
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/ Thursday , April 17 2025
On Wednesday, CISA alerted about increased breach risks due to the earlier compromise of legacy Oracle Cloud servers, emphasizing the...
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CVE-2025-20236
Cisco Patches Unauthenticated RCE Flaw in Webex App
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/ Thursday , April 17 2025
Cisco issued a security advisory about a serious vulnerability in its Webex App that allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE)...
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Apple released emergency security updates for 2 zero-day vulns
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/ Thursday , April 17 2025
On Wednesday, Apple released urgent operating system updates to address two security vulnerabilities that had already been exploited in highly...
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Oracle Released Patched for 378 flaws for April 2025
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/ Wednesday , April 16 2025
On April 15, 2025, Oracle released a Critical Patch Update for 378 flaws for its products. The patch update covers...
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CVE-2025-24054
Hackers Exploiting NTLM Spoofing Windows Vuln the in Wild
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/ Wednesday , April 16 2025
Check Point Research warns of the active exploitation of a new vulnerability, CVE-2025-24054, which lets hackers leak NTLMv2-SSP hashes using...
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Bengaluru firm got ransomware attack, Hacker demanded $70,000
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/ Wednesday , April 16 2025
Bengaluru's Whiteboard Technologies Pvt Ltd was hit by a ransomware attack, with hackers demanding a ransom of up to $70,000...
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MITRE warns: U.S. Govt. Funding for MITRE’s CVE Ends Today
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/ Wednesday , April 16 2025
MITRE Vice President Yosry Barsoum warned that U.S. government funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and Common Weakness...
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PwC exits more than a dozen countries in push to avoid scandals: FT reports
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/ Wednesday , April 16 2025
PwC has ceased operations in more than a dozen countries that its global bosses have deemed too small, risky or...
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The NSA and CISA issued five cybersecurity bulletins about securing data in the cloud. The recommendations cover implementing IAM solutions, encryption, and key management.
A report by FS-ISAC and Akamai showed that DDoS attacks on the financial sector increased by 154% in 2023 compared to 2022, mainly due to strong botnets and cyber hacktivist groups.
Tycoon and Storm-1575 threat actors carried out spear-phishing attacks on U.S. school districts in November 2023. They used Microsoft 365 credentials to bypass MFA protections.
The Rhysida ransomware group sold data stolen from Lurie Children’s Hospital for 60 bitcoins (approximately $3.4 million) on the dark web. The hospital is working on restoring the affected systems.
